Bringing Your New Kitten Home
New Kitten Homecoming: Step-by-Step Guide
Start Small
When your kitten arrives, begin with a quiet “home base” room (master bedroom or guest room is perfect). Too much freedom too fast can cause stress, anxiety, and even temporary litter box confusion.
Set Up Their Home Base
Include:
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Litter pan in a quiet corner
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Food and water dishes
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Soft music/TV on low for comforting voices
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Nursery blanket (familiar scent = instant comfort)
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Catnip toys + cozy beds
Spend time in the room each day—sit, talk softly, let them come to you. Spend plenty of time playing with them.
Important rules:
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Never chase your kitten
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No loud grabbing, squealing, or running after them
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Calm hands create fast trust
Week Two & Beyond
After one week, leave the door open and let them explore at their own pace. Some kittens arrive like tiny superheroes. Others are cautious observers. Both are normal.
The magic word is: TIME.
Suggested Home Base Products (Click photos to purchase)
Catnip Kickers
Silvervine Catnip Teething Sticks
Kitty Treats – We use Life Essentials Freeze-Dried Chicken Cat Treats
Catcrack Catnip
(((A MUST HAVE before your new kitty comes home)))
Feliway Calming Diffuser
A drug-free solution for cats & kittens that helps reduce signs of stress, including scratching, urine spraying, hiding, and environmental changes.
Building a Strong, Healthy Kitten Foundation
We believe one of the most important gifts we can give every kitten is a good, strong, solid foundation before they ever leave our nursery.
Every kitten develops at a different pace, so we don’t decide when a kitten is ready to leave based on age alone. Instead, we look at the individual kitten—its size, development, weaning progress, confidence, and overall readiness.
As a general rule, no kitten leaves our nursery until it reaches about 2–2.5 pounds and we feel it has developed the strong foundation needed for a successful transition into its new home.
Many things influence how quickly a kitten develops. The parents’ size, the number of kittens in the litter, the kitten’s individual growth rate, and especially their weaning progress can all play a role. Some kittens simply need a little more time than others—and we are perfectly happy to give them that time.
We also believe kittens need their mother for much more than milk. A mother cat has incredibly valuable lessons to teach her babies well beyond eight weeks of age. She teaches them appropriate feline behavior, confidence, independence, boundaries, grooming habits, proper litter pan skills, and many of the little social lessons and good habits that shape a well-adjusted adult cat.
Those extra weeks with Mom and their littermates are an important part of their education. They are learning how to be cats—lessons that simply cannot be rushed or replaced.
After nearly four decades of raising Persian kittens, one thing we know for certain is that the best things in life are worth waiting for.
We aren’t raising kittens simply to send them home as quickly as possible. We are raising little lives that will someday be someone’s best friend, someone’s constant companion, someone’s warm spot on the pillow—and, for many families, a tiny piece of their heart.
That’s why we never rush them.
Every kitten gets the time they need to grow, learn, gain confidence, and become strong enough for the wonderful life waiting beyond our nursery doors. The calendar doesn’t decide when they’re ready. The kitten does.
Since 1989, generations of tiny pawprints have passed through our nursery and into the hearts and homes of families across the country.
Through all those years, our promise has remained the same:
Build a strong foundation.
Give them all the time they need.
Love them like they’re ours until the day they become yours.
Doll Face Persian Kittens
Making dreams come true, one little pawprint at a time, since 1989.
